Shade-supporting device.



efs. s. ROSE. SHADE SUPPORTING DEVICE. APPLICATION FILED OCT. 9, 1914.

Patented Sept. 5, 1916.

SHADE-SUPPORTING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 5, 1916.

Application filed October 9, 1914. Serial No. 865,373.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE S. S. ROSE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lindsay, in the county of Tulare and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Shade-Supporting Devices, of which the following is a specification.

An object of the invention is to provide a simple shade supporting device for use in supporting shade rollers and the shades thereof to permit of raising or lowering the shade and roller on the window casing.

The invention contemplates, among other features, the provision of an adjustable shade supporting device which permits of raising or lowering the shade and roller relatively to the casing so as to provide an opening at the top of the casing which will permit of the entrance or exit of air or cool ing currents without necessitating the rolling up of the shade and which ordinarily discloses to persons in the street the entire interior of the room.

Still further embodiments of the invention reside in a shade supporting device in which the shade can be raised or lowered in the usual manner and is also capable of a vertical adjustment on the casing so that ventilation can be secured at the top or bottom of the casing as desired.

In the further disclosure of the invention reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, constituting a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference denote corresponding parts in all the views, and in which:

Figure 1 is a front elevation of a window casing, showing my device applied thereto; Fig. 2 is a side elevation; Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectional view taken on the line 3-3 in Fig. 1; Fig. 4 is a fragmentary front elevation of a modified form of my device; Fig. 5 is a view looking at the inner face or jamb of the window casing, showing the modified form shown in Fig. 1; and Fig. 6 is a horizontal sectional view taken on the line 66 in Fig. 5.

Referring more particularly to the views, I disclose a casing 10 having faces 11 and the usual sides or jambs 12. Mounted on the faces 11 are vertical guideways or tracks 13 each providing a longitudinal slot 14. Arranged to slide in the guideway and projecting through the slot thereof is a bracket member 15 provided with an elongated opening 16 through which one end of the ,15 is a cam-like locking member 19 having opposed ears forming a handle or grip 20, said member 19 having its cam portion adapted to be engaged with the guideway to hold the bracket member against movement.

As shown, a plurality of the bracket members 15 are arranged to slide upon the guideways 15 and the ends of the shade roller are arranged in elongated openings of the bracket members. A scale 21 consisting of suitable marks or designations is provided on each guideway or bracket, and it will readily be seen that the shade roller can be raised or lowered relatively to the casing by simply first swinging the locking members 19 into an unlocked or inoperative position and out of engagement with the guideways and then vertically sliding the bracket members 15 upon the gnideways to the desired position. In order to remove the shade roller from supporting position on the bracket members, it is only necessary to slide one of the bracket members downwardly beyond the horizontal plane of the other so that the shade roller will take a diagonal position and the increase of width between the bracket members by so lowering one of the bracket members will result in a greater space than the length of the shade roller, thereby removing one end of the shade roller from one of the bracket members so that the shade roller can be entirely removed from engagement with the bracket members.

From the foregoing description it will be clearly seen that with a structure of the character described the usual shade indicated by the numeral 22 can be operated in the usual manner upon the shade roller and that the shade roller can be vertically adjusted upon the window casing to increase or decrease the space at the top or bottom.

In the modified form of my structure I have the guideways or tracks 13 secured to the jambs 12 of the casing instead of to the faces thereof, and in this instance the bracket members, indicated by the numeral 23, move toward each other and each have a lateral extension 24: provided with an elongated opening 25 in which the ends of the shade roller are carried, the locking members inclicated by the numeral 26 being substantially the same as the locking members 19 and operable in the same manner.

It Will be clearly seen that in some instances it might be Well to have the guide- Ways or tracks upon the faces of the casing, Whereas in others it Will be more efiicient to have the guideWays or tracks upon the jambs of the casing, and to this end it Will be clear that in the construction set forth there is provided a simple structure which consists of few parts, can be attached to any form of Window casing and Will permit of the vertical adjustment of the shade roller and also the shade upon the casing independent of the operation of the shade upon the roller and the revolution of the roller upon the bracket members.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

In a shade supporting device for Window casings, the combination of channel shaped tracks, T-shaped supporting brackets mounted to slide in said tracks, each of the brackets having its stem disposed Within the channel of one of the tracks, and cam-like locking members, one for each bracket, With each cam-like locking member mounted to straddle and adapted for a vertical swinging movement on the lower end of the stem of the bracket and having the curved surface thereof adapted to bear against the track at opposite points of its channel upon Which the bracket is mounted and bind the engaged portion of the track against the head of the bracket to hold the bracket against movement on the track. I

In testimony whereof, I aflix my signature in presence of tWo Witnesses.

GEORGE S. S. ROSE.

Witnesses:

F. L. STALLINGs, A. P. STARTH.

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